Welcome to this bilingual (Swedish-English) group blog by family members living on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, "the pond". Our interests range from the scientific to the eclectic, including gourmet food, horses, art and literature, computers, species in nature, history and iron, and photography. Three generations are posting here.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

... and you are walking through the Australian forest, and one of these giant prickly stick insects land on you, in your hair or on your shoulder and starts walking across you in search for some good leaves to eat. Would you like that? Amazing creatures, fascinating. One subspecies of this species even imitates lichens. We saw these at the Liberty Science Center, NJ, USA, where they mostly were hanging around upside down, not doing much in particular.

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